NASA begins mission to map the boundaries of our heliosphere

A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created ...
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NASA’s $1B probe hit 400,000 mph to skim the sun, here’s what it saw

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to ...
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Our Solar System has a wall. And NASA is about to reveal its true shape

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
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NASA IMAP spacecraft studies particles and magnetic fields beyond the Sun

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.
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Stardust: The NASA Mission That Brought Back Particles From "The Very Origins Of The Solar System"

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...
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NASA Can Open Up the Solar System With Nuclear Propulsion

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...
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NASA just parked a spacecraft that could redraw the solar system, it might finally map its true shape

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...
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NASA advances heliophysics mission into next phase

The Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora, or CINEMA, mission will fly nine smallsats in polar orbits to study the Earth’s magnetotail. Credit: JHUAPL WASHINGTON — NASA has ...
Ars Technica

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...
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From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.